... Mushrooms.—Mushroom spawn may he procured any nurseryman. Mushroom beds arc prepared by collecting sufficient number of horse droppings, as free from straw as possible, into a heap, and turning them over repeatedly, previously to the formation of the bed, in order that the violent heat arising from them at first may dissipated. In making the bed, the droppings are well beaten down and trodden, ...

... —(Continued.) HOUSE OF LORDS—Thursday. The Lord Chancellor, in moving the second reading of the Charitable Trusts Bill, stated its object to be to give a greater amount legal protection to charities holding endowed property, and to check the abuses which, in consequence of the defective state of thedaw, had hitherto prevailed in the management and disposition of the funds of such institutions. ...

... These Sessions opened on Monday last, and there were present the Right Hon. the Lord Carington (in the chair); the Marquis of Ohandos, M.P. ; Sir II. Verney, Bart., M.P. ; Sir T. D. Aubrey, Bart.; T. R. Barker, Esq.; G. Carrington, Esq.; G. Carrington, jun., Esq. ; C. T. Gaskell, Esq.; R. Crewe, Esq.; G. G. Pigott, Esq.; Hon. C. C. Cavendish, M.P.; C. G. L)u Pre, Esq., M.P. ; R. Ward, Esq.; J. ...